Session 14. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - The Text and Context of
Fourteenth-Century Poetry: Lydgate and Villon
Chair: Derek Baker, University of North Texas
1. "And Away Go Troubles Down the Drain: Lydgate, London and the
Poetics of Urban Identity"
David N. DeVries, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
2. "Lydgate's _Life of Our Lady_: The Text as Illumination and
Illuminator"
Katherine McDevitt, Stanford University
3. "Villon Lais: A Problem Revisited"
Norris J. Lacy, Washington University in Saint Louis
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Session 15. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - Medieval Spanish Literature
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
1. "El cuerpo de Santiago en la narrativa de don Juan Manuel"
Francisco Miranda-Llamas, Auburn University
2. "The Church and _El Cid_: Religious Experience and Thought in
Spain's Medieval Epic Poem"
Malcolm Patterson, Texas A & M International University
3. "A Genre Analysis of the Marian Miracle Tale in 13th Century
Spain and France"
David A. Flory, Purdue University
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Session 16. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - Early Humanism: Its Roots in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Chair: Florence Weinberg, Trinity University
1. "The Humanist Case for Greek in Sixteenth-Century France"
Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Trinity College
2. "Rabelais's Use of Biblical and Patristic Metaphors of
Building"
David Posner, Loyola University, Chicago
3. "Letters from Whom? Joachim Du Bellay's `Regrets' and the
Humanist Epistolary Tradition"
Marc Bizer, University of Texas at Austin
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Session 17. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - The Uncounted Order II: Women
in Medieval and Early Modern Life and Literature
Chair: Jennifer Goodman, Texas A & M University
1. "Eve and Mary, Noah's Wife and Gill: The Struggle of Religious
and Sexual Desire in Medieval Drama"
Fiona Tolhurst Neuendorf, Princeton University
2. "The Inquisition at Home: _Conversas_ in Medieval Iberia"
Deborah S. Ellis, Southwestern University
3. "_Regina Optima et Benigna_: Two Views of Lady Macbeth"
Penelope Warren, Laredo Community College
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Session 18. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Medieval Road to
Reformation
Chair: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
1. "Wyclif and the Politics of the Corpus Christi Controversy"
Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
2. "Sigismund and Hus at the Council of Constance"
Russell Mitchell, University of Texas at Arlington
3. "A Difficult Relationship: Martin Luther and the Jews"
Wolfgang Splitter, Bielefeld University
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Session 19. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - Chauceriana IV: Speech,
Vision and Industry
Chair: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
1. "Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Her Vocabulary"
Mark Allen, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "Visual Variety: Eyes in _Troilus and Criseyde_"
Jennifer J. Stein, Baylor University
3. "Cloth, Tales, and Deceit: The Wife of Bath as a Weaver"
Amy M. Bawcom, Baylor University
4. "Practice of Ransom in the Fourteenth Century and the Kingship of
Theseus"
Windy West Allman, University of California, Berkeley
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Session 20. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Medieval Face of Battle
Chair: Richard King, Midwestern University
1. "Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: Old English
Poetic Evidence"
Kent G. Hare, Louisiana State University
2. "The Sword of Perkunas: the Lithuanian Military in the
Thirteenth Century"
Daniel Wells, University of Houston
3. "Mail and Medieval Warfare"
Randall Rogers, Louisiana State University
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Session 21. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Stain of Sin in Medieval
Society
Chair: Madeleine Pepin, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "_Ofermod_ and _Hygeleast_: An Anglo-Saxon Psychology of Sin in
_Genesis B_"
Pauline J. Alama, University of Rochester
2. "The Medieval View of Evil"
Edward Iglesias, Texas A & M International University
3. "On Willing What is Evil: Dante and Aquinas on Sin"
Shawn D. Floyd, Saint Louis University
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TEMA LUNCHEON - 12:00-1:00
TEMA Business Meeting
Luncheon Address:
"Recent Discoveries of Medieval Manuscripts
and Incunabula in San Antonio"
Robert O'Conner, The Hertzberg Circus Museum
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PLENARY SPEECH. 1:15-2:15
"Shakespeare, Wagner, Zeffirelli, Monty Python
and the Medieval Dawn Song"
Emerson Brown, Jr., Vanderbilt University
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Session 22. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - Navigation of the Web for the
Unwary Scholar
Chair: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State College
1. "Manuscript Treasures of the Hill"
Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St.
John's University
2. "The Internet, the World-Wide Web, and the Texas Medievalist:
An Update"
Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
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Session 23. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - Religious Time and
Discontinuity in Medieval Literature
Chair: Jennifer Goodman, Texas A & M University
1. "The Blood of a Barn in _Piers Plowman_: Time and the Christ
Child"
Theresa Kenney, University of Dallas
2. "`to what entent ese wordis ben understondun': Discontinuity
in Langland, Chaucer, and Kempe"
Charles H. Comer, Southwest Texas State University
3. "Indulgences in Fact and Fiction: The Role of the Pardoner in
Lazarillo de Tormes"
Rhona Zaid, Los Angeles, California
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Session 24. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - A Medieval Miscellany
Chair: Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
1. "Dantean Odysseus: A Christian Interpretation of a Pagan Hero"
Claudia Albini Stephens, University of Texas at Arlington
2. "Rhetorical Cosmology, Exegetical Theology: Rural Facades of
Twelfth-Century France and Spain"
Mickey Abel-Turby, University of Texas at Austin
3. "Music and the Bestiary in the Middle Ages"
Brad Eden, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Session 25. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Perspectives on Cistercian and
Dominican Spirituality
Chair and Commentator: John Martin, Trinity University
1. "United by Bonds of Love: Cistercian Monasteries and an
Imagined Christian Community"
Martha Newman, University of Texas at Austin
2. "Dominican Friar, Lay Saint: the Case of Marcoline of Forli"
Daniel Bornstein, Texas A & M University
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Session 26. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Chauceriana V: Teaching Chaucer
An introduction of Chaucer to the undergraduate classroom.
Discussion Panel:
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
Peter Beidler, Robert F. Cherry Professor, Baylor University.
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Session 27. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Intersection of Cultures in the
Art of the Iberian Middle Ages:
(Including the Sixteenth Century)
Panel Discussion including:
Laurence le Bouhellec, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla
Charles Talbot, Trinity University
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Session 28: Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Old English Language and
Literature
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
1. "The OE _Widsith_ as a Poem of Unwisdom"
James E. Anderson, University of Southwestern Louisiana
2. "The Morphological Status of Old English ge-"
Tracy A. Crouch, Stephen F. Austin State University
3. "Between the Acts: The Connecting Tissue in _Beowulf_"
Allan Robb, Baylor University
4. "The Journey Forth: Elegiac Consolation in _Guthlac B_"
Stephen D. Powell, University of Kentucky
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6:00-7:00 - Wine Reception
Hosted by the Texas Medieval Association
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7:30 - Concert
Medieval and Early Renaissance Selections
performed by the
Collegium Musicum of Trinity University
under the direction of
Gerald Benjamin, Trinity University.